In my opinion Couric is in the same Aristocratic Media Circle as AP’s Kathleen Carroll. Both believe that they are so much better than the “Mad Blog Rabble” (that’s us) that we should just accept their veiws and “reporting” without question.

Surprise! Not going to happen.

I don’t believe for a second that Katie is “unfazed” by all this.

Also, corporate claptrap like Moonves’ is often spewed even within days of the “…for family reasons, she’s pursuing…whaterver”.

Moreover, MM and KP were criticizing the CBScast — where is it written that the critic must be equal in stature to that criticized? This is just a variation on the “chickenhawk meme” — if you haven’t done it, you cannot criticize. No one on the Factor has driven the CBS ratings into the ground; Couric gets the credit for that.

Karl on May 15, 2007 at 12:35 PM

Michelle was criticizing Katie in a very unprofessional fashion, IMO. Did you see this segment?

OK. My perspective would be that cable only has 59% market penetration, and that the Factor competes against prime-time programming, rendering the comparison one of apples and oranges.

You’re forgettting satellite which has about a 30% penetration level, and carries Fox News, so it’s not apples and oranges at all.

The Factor runs in the 8 to 9 time slot, traditionally the most heavily viewed hour of programming.

For some, the woman thing. For some, the Today fluff thing. For some, the Katie thing. For some, the inane thing. No single objection dominates the field.

Bottom line – a menu of reasons to NOT like her, unbalanced by anything compelling about her or her show.

Nevertheless, when honora writes:

As it is, Couric’s anemic ratings still have her beating the tar out of O’R. A little perspective please.

OK. My perspective would be that cable only has 59% market penetration, and that the Factor competes against prime-time programming, rendering the comparison one of apples and oranges.

As for Couric’s stature, honora assumes facts not in evidence. If Couric had stature, the CBS Evening News would not have slumped to the lowest levels in 20 years.

Moreover, MM and KP were criticizing the CBScast — where is it written that the critic must be equal in stature to that criticized? This is just a variation on the “chickenhawk meme” — if you haven’t done it, you cannot criticize. No one on the Factor has driven the CBS ratings into the ground; Couric gets the credit for that.

I was disappointed at how nasty Michelle was. Calling Couric inept and a clown, and smirking the whole time, is this necessary? More to the point, is it professional?

Couric is a not so behind the scenes activist liberal that has promoted many socialist and America hate ideals.

So yea, she deserves the criticism.

In fact if turn abouts fair play then a lot of make up name calling is due liberals in general.

Great great picture

How many times have we seen this? People on a upward trend getting full of themselves because, of course, their good fortune will never end, they will always be the darlings of the ratings gods.

Right.

Michelle and Kirsten and O’Reilly have miles to go before they reach Couric’s stature. I’m not a Couric fan, much preferred Bob S., but that’s not the point, facts are facts.

As it is, Couric’s anemic ratings still have her beating the tar out of O’R. A little perspective please.

CBS News is failing because they don’t really report the news anymore. They have been, for at least 20 years, a tool of whatever liberal political agenda is blowing at the time.

I like watching Catie on TV, almost as much as I like watching Michelle and Kirsten. But the problems begin when I listen to what they are actually saying. MM and KP discuss issues of the day from a critical thinking perspective. Caties just relates whatever PC pablum happens to be in vogue. If I want PC pablum I can watch the Daily Show because at least that show is funny.

Come on, FOX has loads of blonde women doing the news. It hasn’t hurt their ratings.

Her name is Lynne Russell and she anchored Headline News for years. She was not an on-air “personality” like Couric; she delivered the news in CNN’s trademark deadpan. It worked – mostly. And I loved the times she just couldn’t help herself and broke with deadpan neutrality. Perhaps it was the lipstick, but you could often detect a slight sneer or a hint of a smile when the news was particularly foolish that day. For me, these glimpses of her personality, buried under a facade of newsreader neutrality, added to her authority.

Katie Couric as a female pioneer in the news? It’s just propaganda. I e-mailed Lynne Russell during the height of the Katie Couric hoopla, saying “Katie Couric is to Lynne Russell as Danica Patrick is to Sally Ride.” I got a very gracious e-mail in reply.

Sadly, despite being a martial-arts student and former sheriff’s deputy, Lynne is a bit of a left-wing moonbat. But for her, I can forgive. Perhaps it’s that lipstick….

katie couric, I’m sorry, you suck hun…I don’t like you and I’m a woman..and it’s not because you ARE a woman. I like quite a few women giving the news. You just suck. Your questions suck, your facial expressions suck, your thinking sucks, you just don’t flow with the interview. You in fact, SUCK. Now you need to just suck it up and you and your network need to stop using that your ratings suck because you are a woman excuse.

You poor men get dumped on when this crap happens. Not all females think this way..rest assured.

Hey Bill- I was MORE than comfortable when Michelle was filling in for you.

With all due respect/Just sayin’

mojowire on May 14, 2007 at 9:42 PM

Too true. The first thing I thought when he said it was a “woman” thing was, ummm that’s why Michelles blog is so low on the lists, wait that’s not right. On Technorati Michelle is the first opinion based one person blog. Those above her are Technology based or group/comunity blogs.

- The Cat

P.S. If you haven’t noticed Bill tends to be sexist, not misogynistic by any means, but a sexist none the less. I really noticed this when he had his segments interviewing the Fox News Ladies.

Michelle has succinctly identified Couric’s problem.

The only think I’d add is that she is a LEFT-BIASED, BRAINLESS, LIBERAL fake.

To be fair, even Edward R. Morrow would have trouble reviving CBS News once Dan “Forged Documents” Rather got done ruining it. The hit on CBS News as a result of the forged NG documents AND HIS DENIALS will take years to recover from, regardless who is anchor. Assuming that CBS News does recover, that is.

Hiring Couric was a mistake. Making her chief editor was an even bigger one as she has neither the editorial skills NOR THE HONESTY to craft a fair and ideologically neutral news cast. At best she became just another shill for the Democratic Party pumping out DNC and MOVEON talking points instead of producing a bias-free show.

What the morons at the networks STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND, that CONTENT COUNTS! These drooling idiots, when they’re not stepping on their penis’s, still do not understand that there is a reason why American does not trust them to tell the truth.

Couric, with her sycophantic sucking up to Hillary when she told that Vast Right Wing Conspiracy lie, has forever placed her in the category of “TOO STUPID TO HOOK UP HER OWN BRA WITHOUT ASSISTANCE,” or “WHORE FOR BILL AND HILLARY.”

It’s not a ‘woman thing’ – it’s that woman.

Michelle’s “she’s a fake” will cause lots of palpitations, but who can prove the contrary?